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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on January 22, 2009, 01:25:40 PM
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When President Bush left office on Tuesday, America marked 2,688 days without a terrorist attack on its soil. There are 1,459 days until the next inauguration. Whether Barack Obama is standing on the Capitol steps to be sworn in a second time depends on whether he succeeds in replicating Bush's achievement.
As the new president receives his intelligence briefings, certain facts must now be apparent: Al-Qaeda is actively working to attack our country again. And the policies and institutions that George W. Bush put in place to stop this are succeeding. During the campaign, Obama pledged to dismantle many of these policies. He follows through on those pledges at America's peril -- and his own. If Obama weakens any of the defenses Bush put in place and terrorists strike our country again, Americans will hold Obama responsible -- and the Democratic Party could find itself unelectable for a generation.
Consider, for example, the CIA program that Bush created to detain and question senior leaders captured in the war on terror. Many of these terrorists, including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, refused to talk -- until Bush authorized the CIA to use enhanced interrogation techniques. Information gained using those techniques is responsible for stopping a number of planned attacks -- including plots to blow up the American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; to fly airplanes into the towers of Canary Wharf in London; and to fly a hijacked airplane into the Library Tower in Los Angeles.
WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103215.html)
Sadly, it looks like Obama is hell-bent on leading us to another terrorist attack, sooner rather than later. It's not something that I want to see, but most assuredly he has access to far more of the intelligence resources than even the New York Slimes. Yet he still is taking a dangerous path in following his promises to the nutjobs on the left.
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following his promises to the nutjobs on the left.
The problem is he IS a leftist nutjob. :thatsright:
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I found it surprising that the Washington Post would actually publish this op-ed, until I did a little research on Marc A. Thiessen, the article's author.
The Post is still gushing about His Holiness' acquisition of power and how cool it is to be a po' black chile makin' it big.
Thiessen has published several articles for the National Review, a noted conservative publication.
I guess that means that Thiessen is the Post's token Rethug. :whatever:
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WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103215.html)
Sadly, it looks like Obama is hell-bent on leading us to another terrorist attack, sooner rather than later. It's not something that I want to see, but most assuredly he has access to far more of the intelligence resources than even the New York Slimes. Yet he still is taking a dangerous path in following his promises to the nutjobs on the left.
Agreed. His out-of-the gate actions on Gitmo and those "horrific" torture tools indicate this.
Clinton's serve'em-with-legal-papers approach to dealing with terrorists didn't work and won't work with Obama.